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January 31, 2012

In this week's round up post, I want to share with you guys the kind of designer I aspire to be.

Let's start with menswear. I already mentioned a few times about how much I want to do menswear. Though I know how much effort is required to do this, my mind is already set to pursue it in the not-so-distant future. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Take a look at this video by The Satorialist. Don't you just love seeing men in perfectly tailored suits and with dapper styles? Well, I certainly do.

January 23, 2012

It is quite a practice to distort reality if one can no longer find the purpose of beauty in its most banal form.

Say: a perfectly contoured face driven by platitude can break itself into disheveled pieces yet remain crafted. Or a failure of flight can bring a pair of feet to leave its owner and rightfully place itself in between a cushion of clouds.

In this Untitled exhibition, you may find yourself stepping back, tilting your head or even closing an eye to fall in love with what is in front of you. Indulge. Let this alteration of what is real bring you a new sense of order and perhaps, a rekindling with what you used to deem as beautiful.

Some of my friends have been asking me why I don't post "outfit shots" in my blog or why I don't have a lookbook account. Well, I can think of plenty of answers for them but to be honest, it just boils down to one thing -my laziness.

But since I promise to be more active this year, I realize that taking some outfit shots -take note of the word some- doesn't sound so bad at all. So here I am, with my first and hopefully not the last outfit post for 2012.

~o~

Vintage was definitely what I was going for last Sunday.

Inspired by Twin Sister's song Lady Daydream, I wore a red knitted sweater and a knee length polka-dotted box pleated skirt cinched in the waist by a blue belt.

And though you can't actually see it, my shoes are the color inspiration behind this look: red, blue and black.

January 11, 2012

Well it certainly looks like 2012 is starting with a bang. And one of my favorite magazines is making sure of that.

STATUS Magazine is bringing their December cover photographer, Perou (British fashion photographer), here in Manila on January 21. Get to hear him talk and see his works at the Ayala Museum, and party afterwards at Robot!

January 3, 2012

Yes yes, I know. I'm a couple of days late. Things have started out differently that writing my New Year post got delayed. But here I am now.

2011 was a year of great learning for me. I can say in all honesty that it was a year of disappointment for me. Well, disappointed to myself that is. I know I could've made a much more impact last year but never really maximized my potential as a person. It was a year that I lost to laziness and pessimism.

But it was also a year full of unexpectedness. One was unofficially-officially heading the Model Relation Department for Philippine Fashion Week. That was one cray experience right there! Need I say more? Haha!

Looking at last year, I realized how I could have totally made it my best year so far but didn't. Thank God for the new year, right?

So moving on to 2012, I was able to form a plan on how to make this year the best I have so far. It's very simple really. And you might think it's a little funny too. All I have to do is be AWESOME.

In everything I do, I will try and be awesome at it -or just simply do the best I can do. I already have proven that I can do all things if I set my mind to it. So the next and best thing to do is to do your bestest to it.

Oh Barney will be so proud of me -using his motto, I mean.

2012 may be the year where the world will end or not, but I promise to make this year mine.